It's been a wild few days in the world of AI.
At first, things started out on a high.
Yeah, I mean, early in the week, last week, there was euphoria at OpenAI.
That's our colleague Bob McMillan, who covers technology.
OpenAI had said it had solved this so-called Millennium Prize math problem.
This mathematical prize that was considered just a few years ago something to be unattainable by an AI system.
And it was yet another of these sort of magical breakthroughs
that AI systems seem to be achieving at a very regular pace.
You know, here's another example of this new age of amazing breakthroughs that we're in.
And then came Tuesday.
On Tuesday, over at Anthropic, a researcher named Jacob Coxson quit and posted on X that he was quitting
because he was worried about how powerful artificial intelligence had become.
He walked away from one of the greatest jobs in Silicon Valley,
and he did it because he said he thought the products he was working on could kill everyone.
Kill everyone.
Coxson said that Anthropic and OpenAI are moving too fast and, quote, gambling with our lives.
Then, on Saturday, Anthropics CEO Dario Amadei said the industry did need to slow down.
And by the end of the weekend, leaders at other major AI companies,
including Sam Altman at Rival OpenAI and Elon Musk, agreed.
If you roll the clock back one year, it's incredible all of the things that AI has been able to achieve.